Henhouse at Approximately 30 Metres North of Penrose Farmhouse is a Grade II listed building in the Cornwall local planning authority area, England. First listed on 15 December 1988. Hen house.

Henhouse at Approximately 30 Metres North of Penrose Farmhouse

WRENN ID
empty-alcove-scarlet
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Cornwall
Constituency
St Ives MP: Andrew George (LD)
Country
England
Date first listed
15 December 1988
Type
Hen house
OS grid reference
SW 376 255
Coordinates
50.07236, -5.66787
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The building is a round structure located approximately 30 metres north of Penrose Farmhouse, last used as a hen house. It likely dates from the 17th century but was remodeled as a hen house in the 19th century. The walls are made of granite moorstone rubble, and it has a monopitched roof covered with corrugated iron. The building has a roughly round exterior, bordered by three hedges, while the interior features a rectangular cell with six nesting boxes built into the walls. It is a single-storey structure with only a doorway and a small window on the east side. On the south side, there is a 17th-century granite monolithic gate-pier that has four mortices for a former loose-barred gate. The interior is simply finished with rubble walls and includes the six nesting boxes located on the south and west walls.

Local climate

Henhouse at Approximately 30 Metres North of Penrose Farmhouse sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 980 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 78% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 97% of listed buildings.

It averages fewer than one freeze-thaw cycle a year. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.2°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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